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Twitter Scavenger Hunt: Tweet For Free Concert Tickets

Scavenger hunts and Twitter are obvious playmates, as the medium provides a great platform for dispersing clues to a captive audience. Realizing that very potential is Live Nation, a site that sells concert tickets.

Starting tomorrow morning, Live Nation will be sending followers on an online and offline scavenger hunt with their tweets. Should you follow the clues from the company's Twitter accounts and complete the tasks at hand, you'll be competing to win a 2010 lawn season pass to your local Live Nation amphitheater.

The rules of the scavenger hunt aren't overly complicated, though they are, as expected, rather promotional in nature. First follow Live Nation (@LiveNation) and their local Twitter account nearest to you (see official rules and accounts). Enter the contest with a tweet to both Twitter accounts and the hashtag #LNScavHunt, and then start looking for clues starting tomorrow (Weds.) morning.

Your ultimate quest will be to locate three different Live Nation Twitter Scavenger Hunt icons, which you'll need to find online or in the physical world, capture them with a photo, and tweet to the local Live Nation Twitter account. Once you've found all three, and penned the appropriate tweets with photos, you'll also need to tweet that you're done. Should you enter and complete the scavenger hunt, you'll be eligible to win the lawn season pass, but you'll also get a $10 lawn ticket just for competing.

Twitter giveaways are nothing new, in fact it's a Twitter trend that we're watching closely. This one, however, seems to be focused on maximizing bang for the buck, with no less than five tweets required per competing person. It's an aggressive effort designed to flood twitter with tweets about Live Nation.

We're curious to see how this all this develops on Twitter. Should the contest see healthy competition, it's not a stretch of the imagination to expect the hashtag to trend. But, trending Twitter giveaways seem to be most successful when they're simple, and this one is definitely more involved. We'll keep our eyes on the tweets, but we'd love to hear what you think of the scavenger hunt. Will you be competing? Tell us in the comments.

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